“I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 77 of 169
“People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.”
“Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.”
“We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.”
“For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment”
“he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.”
“That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.”
“I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.”
“The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called — which only a nerd would call — a “regret minimization framework.” So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, “Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.””
“Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.”
“We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”
“The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.”
“If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself”
“Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.”
“Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.”
“Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.”
“It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.”
“I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.”
“Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.”
“In 1980, a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, "Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability." I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.”